i could also use an umbrella. fall in love with progressive's claims service. >>> welcome back to "hardball." what will a deal look like, if there is one, and who's going to wind up giving up more on the tax cuts for wealthy americans. harry reid says $250,000 is a threshold, but that may not hold. joining me now, josh green. josh, for the markets, for the business community, whether it's 250,000, i know it's a big deal for politicians, but 250, 400, 500,000, is there any real difference? >> absolutely none. the business community has said, ceos have said go ahead, raise our taxes, we don't want to go over the cliff because it's going to imperil the recovery. >> the market has been moving in a pretty volatile fashion. i don't know if we can show that chart that we had, but every piece of new news, whether it was up or down, you can see from the peeks and the troughs here, just from a facebook post, would send the market into turmoil. >> all along, washington will do what it always does. last minute, everyone will